Blockchain-Based IoT-cloud authorization and delegation
Title | Blockchain-Based IoT-cloud authorization and delegation |
Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
Year of Conference | 2018 |
Authors | Tapas, N., G. Merlino, and F. Longo |
Conference Name | Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2018 |
Pagination | 411-416 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Conference Location | Taormina, Italy - 18-20 June 2018 |
ISBN Number | 9781538647059 |
Keywords | Access control, Access to resources, authorization, Blockchain, Cloud middlewares, Clouds, Delegation, Delegation modeling, Ethereum, Geographic areas, Internet of Things, middleware, Smart city, Smart contracts |
Abstract | In a Smart City scenario, the authors envisioned an IoT-Cloud framework for the management of boards and resources scattered over a geographic area. It can also become a tool to let device owners contribute freely to the infrastructure. In comparison to datacenter-oriented Cloud middleware, the administrator and the owner of the infrastructure are not one and the same. This translates into the requirement to support delegation-enabled authorization. In this paper, the authors investigate an authorization and delegation model for the IoT-Cloud based on blockchain technology. In particular, the scheme is implemented in the form of smart contracts over the Ethereum platform. Indeed, this approach represents an enhancement, over a function previously designed in a centralized fashion, by enabling the user to audit authorization operations and inspect how access control is actually performed, without blindly trusting the Cloud as a proxy for access to resources. © 2018 IEEE. |
URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051495365&doi=10.1109%2fSMARTCOMP.2018.00038&partnerID=40&md5=57e82ce12e19c3286c34b0612a587237 |
DOI | 10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2018.00038 |